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Excise Tax
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Jay's Treaty
Treaty to ease tension between Britain and US to avoid war -
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Naturalization Act of 1798
On this day in 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Naturalization Act, the first of four laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The act required immigrants to reside in the United States for 14 years before becoming eligible for citizenship, tacking an additional nine years to the prior residence requirement. In practice, the federal government never enforced the law. Website -
Alien Act
CiteCongress then passed the Alien Act on June 25, authorizing the President to deport aliens "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" during peacetime. -
Alien Enemies Act
CiteThis act allowed the wartime arrest, imprisonment and deportation of any alien subject to an enemy power. -
Sedition Act
CiteThe last of the laws, the Sedition Act, passed on July 14 declared that any treasonable activity, including the publication of "any false, scandalous and malicious writing," was a high misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. By virtue of this legislation twenty-five men, most of them editors of Republican newspapers, were arrested and their newspapers forced to shut down. -
Kentucky-Virginia Resolution
These resolutions were written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts. -
Marbury v. Madison
Checks and balances in action!!! -
Louisiana Purchase
CiteThe purchase of the Louisiana territory came about as a result of concern to secure free navigation of the Mississippi River. President Jefferson sent Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe to negotiate with the government of the powerful Napoleon I for the sale of New Orleans. Napoleon included the entire territory. BUT did he really have the POWER TO DO THIS?!? -
Lewis and Clark
Elbow Room
The American expedition to the Pacific northwest was intended to study the Native American Indian tribes, botany, geology, Western terrain and wildlife in the region, as well as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area. -
Embargo Act
Law passed by Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. This law stopped all trade between America and any other country. The goal was to get Britain and France, who were fighting each other at the time, to stop restricting American trade. The Act backfired, and the American people suffered. The Act was ended in 1809. -
Non-Intercourse Act
Replaced the failed Embargo Act and reopened trade with Britain.
